[…]. So, I wrote complaining bitterly. This is my memo dated eighth January 1952. “With regard to this proposed Goons television show, I've elicited the basic idea hailed from Michael Bentine, when he was offered his own single TV show. With regard to the three other goons, Spike Milligan tells me was […]
[…]d. Do you want to know where I said. Yes. Yes. I served with the relativity. I went to a training regiment in Raleigh in Lancashire and I received my basic training there and then I was posted to a Field Regiment. It was one hundred and fifty for Field Regiment are a less your own Leicestershire you[…]
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[…]ng films, but they were very open-ended, they were just fifteen minute films, open-ended.In synch this was?In synch, yes. And again, I had a group, a basic group of teenagers whom I used as my sort of main characters, a group of four and then peripheral. And again, had a very good relationship with […]
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[…]That was quite expensive in those days.EC: And then when I went up to Hampstead, of course out in the sticks there, I got a place for 6/6d.SC: Fairly basic?EC: No. First floor. A woman with great appreciation of life and everything. She was a very nice woman. Mrs. Boon. Mrs. Boon said she only looke[…]
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[…]lt of these negotiations, we won three weeks holiday after 10 years service, and the consolidation of 30 shillings of the cost of living bonus in the basic wage. The wage claim itself and the 40 hour week were referred to arbitration. And as a result of the arbitration, we gained an increase of nine[…]
[…]use there it is. I do have to say that that particular sequence in Timothy  of the Christmas and the terrible fog before and Michael Redgrave is basically and he said, You know that, foul weather it rained too much in the fog, and said and then Christmas day dawned with loveliness and it is the[…]